THE. NE.W YORKER press aide hands out some releases "Each one has heen checked by .-:1 fed- eral mdrshal," he says dryly. A few hours ago, the F.B.I. was replaced by federal marshals. Doyle says that "the mood of the staft is that we're going to continue." He is asked about the fact that the White House has announced that the SpecIal Prosecutor's office was abolished. "The White House an- nounced We were dbolished," he re- plies, "but, you know, if they announce the sky IS green and you look up and see the sk) is blue. . ." OCTOBER 22 M ONDAY. Veterans Day. It is a gov- ernment holiday, and it should be a day of quiet, but that is not POSSI- ble. The Congress is in recess, and many offices are closed But around the city people are examining the situation, holding meetings, getting their bear- Ings. According to the papers, there were discussions yesterday within the White House on when the President should make a televised statement ahout the Stennis compromise. "Conservative White House advisers, who applauded the showdown move," says a Wash- ington Post story, "predicted yesterday that [the President] will achieve a po- litical vindication comparable to the one that Harry S Truman eventually won for his firing of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur." It quotes Patrick Buchan'ln as saying, "And you don't go after a President for makIng an unpopular de- cIsion, especially In a period of inter- national crisIs like this" Senators Ervin and Baker say that their committee may now broaden its inquiry. I went to see someone who works on the White House staff, to get his version of the events-to find out the way he was thinking, or wanted me to think he was thInking. This person stipulated that I could quote hIm, as long as I did not use his name but re- ferred to him as a "White House source." "Think back to February or March," he said. "Ninety-nine per cent of the people here dId not know things that we now know from the hearings, 1"'''/ III ":; 1/1/1/1/1 III1I II Illrllll 11'1111, , II I II ""'I"I I/Ih...... 11111 ), ii,',! 1\ 1'1111 II" I, I I ( '1'( I I /I,! I I I JI'fill"I"'IIII';' ,II illlllllllllll "IIIIIII! I II II "IIII 11 I 11 1 ;,1 I I II I I rum 'f 111111111 ,III i! 1 I Jil",llt" . I/!""!I!I W!IWmIW ml w,I! I ! J l and from all that's transpired. When two things became apparent-that there was more than we thought, and that the Democrats were going to take our, you should pardon the expreSSIon, blank oft-some of us said, 'There's going to be one hell of a fight and we should gear up.' There were others who were not looking so much at the fact that the Democrdts would capitalize on this as that there were these truths that would COlne out. They were saying, 'Let them COlne out and let the Demo- crats capitalize on them and then it will pass.' They were saying, 'Since these things were true, take the damage' They asked, 'How can you justify bat- tling it?' My argument was that the President is the only lion in the forest and when there has been a cut in hirn the ants will grov l in number, and by the time he gets back on his feet, only his carcass will be there. As I saw it, and some others saw it, we should have waged a political battle. Had our argu- ment won, we ll1ight not be where we are today. The appointment of the Special Prosecutor was the result of a negatIve decision that was permitted to go forward because of inaction, not be- cause of action. The deal over which Richardson resigned was between Rich- ardson and the committee No one here said 'Make it,' but no one said 'Don't do it.' Richaldson reported to the \Vhite House that a Special Prosecutor should be picked. The pis to] was pointed Lìt the old man's [the PresIdent's 1 head, and there wasn't much else we could do. So we're coming out of six or seven months where we kind of rolled over and let anyone have at us who wanted to How many times have you seen the White House stnke hack? It just hasn't occurred. But now we've put it on the line, for the first tÍ1ne since this thing began. The thing that is different now is that it has now shifted to our ini- tiatIve. What makes me very happy now is that we know how to fight this kind of hattle. We know how to cope with it. What we didn't know how to cope with was the mea-culpa attitude that \ve have had for the last several months. That is foreign to us and our nature " He then spoke of the events of the vveekend. "Let's take this weekend," he said. "Every action that the Presi- dent took was completely within his legal right and prerogative, and yet what's the talk? The talk is of im- peachment. What crime or misde- meanor did he commit this weekend? And as for bringing Baker and ErvIn along-you watch it. That agreement won't fall apart. 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